MUMBAI: To check the sale of health supplements under the medicines tag and to make them safer for consumption, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India has come up with regulations.
Regulations that were released on Thursday for eight categories of products, including supplements, will be implemented with immediate effect.
Sandip Gupta, spokesperson for the industry that manufactures dietary supplements, said that the cloud of uncertainty over such products has now been cleared.
"Authenticity of products like soya protein, fish oils, amino acids, probiotics cannot be doubted henceforth. Earlier, they lacked standard licensing," he said. Gupta added that in the absence of any regulations for health supplements, consumers in India had been denied their use as manufacturers and importers could not make or import them.
"Now, with the operationalization of regulations for health supplements, consumers and the industry wil be benefitted," he said.
The regulator will now issue licences to companies and approve products that comply with new standards, The new regulations will facilitate the state food authorities and their teams of inspectors to supervise the food businesses. Food business operators can now use only those additives and colours which are permitted.
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